In one of my classes last night, one I have just been handed due to another teacher who's leaving soon, the students work with CNN news clips. The one last night was about South Korea's internet addiction, and the fact that a lot of South Koreans now are hanging out in PC Bangs (rooms) and chatting or playing online games for up to 14 hours a day, and it has apparently reached the point of becoming a national mental health crisis. In a country where you can achieve rock-star status playing video games for a living, this doesn't surprise me at all. What worries me more is that people are actually worried about North Korea's nuclear capability; these people can't build a semi-reliable CAR successfully, what the hell makes anybody think they have the capacity to build a bomb that will find its target?! And the full military might of the United States, minimally, against North Korea?! This is the only country in the world that DOESN'T have internet service available! Helluva fight that would be, huh? Uncle Sam versus the Grand Army of Wisconsin. Never mind the havoc wreaked by famine in North Korea, due to the windbag threats they've made in the past that earned them economic sanctions from everyone north of the Sri Lankans. In the face of such a decemation to the populace, well, not even Koreans can reproduce THAT fast. So am I worried about North Korea? Yes, and the price of cheesecake is on the rise, too. I find it hard to believe South Koreans really care about the nuclear arsenal of their countrymen to the north, in their glazed-over, internet-addicted, consumerist stupor. Just don't cut off their ISP, and everything will be hunky-dory.